Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎240r] (480/669)

,« jlunicipallty«, Kumaili, the prominent merchant, has
^>een re-elected President ox the Ahwaz Chamher of Commerce,
of t xr Xh5/^'
^coi ,omi o
^3 Shi
%
( 13 )* Prices have risen during the m«nth, as con
fidence recovers from the slump of the previous month.
There have been no bankruptcies during ivovember* Tea is
being smuggled in from Kuwait, but the stocks are n®t large
and priceo have returned t* the end of August level. Piece
goods prices are rising steadily, from 5- ICfo per week -
stocks also being low. It is stated that there is a glut
of silk in Tehran, coming from bwitzeriand, Thio has n®t
reached Ahwaz,
(14)
it is tnought that there is a considerable
movement of gold int® Iraq; and Dinar notes are plentiful
in Ahwazo It is of course rumoured that such gold finds
its way to Germany<>
(15;. F«r a week meat was unobtainable in the
bazaar y owing tc the butchers refusing to sell, in the
h®pes of breaking the Municipality’s set price"(see para
20 frf Diary 14) 0 Their efforts to form a Municipal Syndicate
to control the sale of meat was frustrated by Mr* 8®l&m®n,
(l6) e Comparative prices are as follows ; -
Tea (per pkt,)
Sugar (per k.i 1c)
Rice (Disful)
Beans
Lentils
Dggs (each)
potatoes
Onions
Ret ail
"135
90
1®
1C
10
2,50
e;
6
'Wholesale
13 C
8£
3
3
3
d»2o
1.50
4
Wheat per k
at liluo 170 v
LAW id\D ORDER
na s
J.. O c
>e Ut- Zi
1 : 1 :
16*
PiSc 400, with barley
fit
no of October)
(I7) e becur ity . It is reported teat there has been a de
crease of raidingjby the Balimai, although shots were ex
changed between A_dC guards and tribesmen (believed to be
Taibi) on two successive mght R in the ,.gha Jar 1 area*
(18), A few j
have occurred between
•ocasion a boviet lorr
seriously wounded* A
posts.
.ncidents of attacks by armed Arabs
Ahwaa cxiid Khorramshahr. On one
*7 was i?red on and a Russian bergeamt
raid was made on one of the railway
(19) « Poli tic al par ties. The Pudeh party in Ahvas continues
to admit that it achieves nothing, and laments its .lack of*
support. At the last meeting Omid advocated dispelling the
rumour that the ~udeh was a Russian organisation^
(20) , In bultanabad the Tudeh oarty is equally
moribund, although at the enc of ctober outside organisers
were able c® ship up s. meeting in connection with the oil
concessions.